How Did Tatooine Form?
Dust traps may be the key to forming Kepler-16b and other circumbinary planets.
Dust in SPACE: Studying the growth of planetesimals with a suborbital rocket experiment
By sending a chamber of dust on a suborbital ballistic rocket, the authors of this paper hope to find out how planetesimals form.
Imaging a CO snow line with ALMA
Astronomers imaged a snow line in a protoplanetary disk with ALMA – a step towards a better understanding of the theory of planet formation.
A Core Matter
The mass of the cores of giant planets affects their luminosity after formation, complicating how we determine the mass of directly imaged planets.
The strength of planet formation: planets found in dense star clusters
The recent discovery of two planets in an open star cluster implies that planet formation can survive the harsh environments of a dense stellar cluster.
Recap of the IAU Planet Formation Symposium
Highlights from the International Astronomical Union Symposium on “Exploring the Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems”.